... percent of the investment should go to creating new infrastructure and maintaining what it already has. Russia has managed to maintain its railroads, ports and existing airports, although development of civil aviation in the regions remains weak. But roads are the area in greatest need of investment, according to the analysis. In the World Economic Forum’s competitive rating, Russia gets 130th place for road quality, below Angola, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Expenditures on road construction...

Before leaving the Kremlin, former president and current Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev gave Arkady Rotenberg's Mostotrest an extravagant gift of several tens of billions of rubles' worth of contracts for road construction in Moscow without competition. Before leaving the Kremlin, former president and current Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev gave Arkady Rotenberg's Mostotrest an extravagant gift of several tens of billions of rubles' worth of contracts...

Roads in and outside the city center will be closed for various periods from Sunday to Wednesday due to a rehearsal of the Victory Day parade, the parade itself, and the presidential inauguration of Vladimir Putin. Roads in and outside the city center...

Protesters believe that plans to build a road through Zhukovsky Forest are a pretext to construct a multi-billion-dollar aviation center. Activists removing a fence in Zhukovsky Forest, in the Moscow region, and a confrontation between protesters and police, on April 30. Video by Alexandra...

A BMW sedan used by the country's police official responsible for road safety struck a boxy Zhiguli car in central Moscow on Thursday — and traffic police tried to cover up the accident. A BMW sedan used by the country's police official responsible for road safety struck a boxy Zhiguli...

Moscow authorities have published Doroga.mos.ru, the road repair plan for the current year, on the Roads of Moscow portal, Vedomosti reported Friday. All work — about 2,000 projects — is mapped out with the date of commencement and completion, and current status, according to the Moscow department...

Following the president's order to cut the number of officials entitled to use flashing lights to skirt through traffic, several incidents of alleged abuse involving high-profile figures have come to light. A video posted online earlier this week of a Maybach and a BMW belonging to LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky cutting through oncoming traffic on Tverskaya Street. In the wake of President Vladimir Putin’s order to cut the number of public officials entitled to use flashing lights to skirt...

The first part of a new intersection at the notorious bottleneck where Leningradskoye Shosse and the Moscow Ring Road meet should be open by the end of this year. The first part of a new intersection at the notorious bottleneck where Leningradskoye Shosse and the Moscow Ring Road meet should be open by the end of this year. Mayor Sergei Sobyanin ordered...

... with international standards. This is an important step, since the Concession Law has the role of acting as the main legislative framework for PPP projects in Russia. The Concessions Law applies to most types of infrastructure, including, inter alia, roads and roadside service facilities, public transport, railways, pipelines, sea and river ports, airports, hydraulic structures, public utilities, as well as medical, educational, cultural, sports and tourism facilities. However, prior to the latest...

... cellular communications operators need to provide coverage along federal highways by the end of 2013. The Communications and Press Ministry will be responsible for carrying out the instructions. The Transportation Ministry will have to build access roads to antenna towers, and the Energy Ministry, with the help of the Federal Grid Company and Russian Railways, is mandated to supply electricity for the project. The government has allocated 2 billion rubles ($67 million) to help alleviate the costs...

Serbia is on a "long and uncertain" road to joining the European Union but will not give up its claim to Kosovo for the sake of membership, President-elect Tomislav Nikolic told President Vladimir Putin on Saturday. Serbia is on a "long and uncertain"...

... to the Blue Buckets movement in Moscow, where cars with the lights often bring traffic to a standstill. Motorists bonded together in April 2010 to report blatant abuses of the lights, which give a car the power to disregard the speed limits and other road signs. At the beginning, members adorned their cars with blue buckets that children play with in sandboxes. Police said in March that there shouldn't have been a flashing blue light on the car carrying former Sverdlovsk region Governor Alexander...

A tractor in the Siberian region of Tomsk slammed into a bus stop on a rural road, killing one person instantly and sending two others to the hospital, where they later died, police said in a statement on their website Wednesday. A tractor in the Siberian region of Tomsk slammed into a bus stop on a rural road, killing one...

Major road closures to accommodate May Day rallies and processions will affect traffic in the capitol Tuesday, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry said. Major road closures to accommodate May Day rallies and processions will affect traffic in the capitol...

Police have broken up an eco camp set up by protesters trying to stop the destruction of a Moscow region forest to make way for a road connecting the city of Zhukovsky with the nearby site of the MAKS international air show. Police have broken up an eco camp set up by protesters trying to stop the destruction of a Moscow region forest to make way for a road...

... offering plans, O1 Properties, an owner of high-end office complexes in Moscow, is abandoning its IPO because of roiling stock markets, the company said. The Russian stock market has dropped precipitously in recent weeks, and the company is ending its road show rather than waiting out the market "because nobody knows when it's going to stop falling," said Arina Slynko, communications director at O1 Properties. Even smaller declines in European markets are "more than enough for investors...

... and my sorrow. The people walking you are not exalted, Their heels click, they hurry on their way. Oh, Arbat, my Arbat, you are my religion Your roadway lies beneath me. I will never be cured of loving you, Even as I love forty thousand other roads. Oh, Arbat, my Arbat, you are my homeland, No one could ever reach the end of you. Bulat Okudzhava wrote that in 1959. It is one of his most famous songs and it is called, "Song about the Arbat." It came to mind today because of a...

It was never meant to be like this. When Ukraine was named co-host of Europe's biggest football fest in 2009, its leaders hailed the award as a milestone on the road to joining the European mainstream. KIEV — It was never meant to be like this. When Ukraine was named co-host of Europe's biggest football fest in 2009, its leaders hailed the award as a milestone on the road to joining the European...

Companies will be required to submit customs declarations in advance for goods arriving by road at the Russian border, according to new regulations issued by the Federal Customs Service that will come into force in mid-June. Companies will be required to submit customs declarations in advance for goods arriving by road at the Russian border...

A bureaucrat who attended classes at Yale is tipped as the next leader of the Sverdlovsk region after Governor Alexander Misharin resigned Monday following a fatal road accident last winter. A bureaucrat who attended classes at Yale is tipped as the next leader of the Sverdlovsk region after Governor Alexander Misharin resigned Monday following a fatal road accident last winter. Misharin stepped down “at...